Lord Mountbatten was Prince Charles’ ‘grandfather I never had’. He was also ‘a homosexual with a perversion for young boys’, according to the FBI.
Lord Mountbatten and Prince Charles in 1975. Picture: Getty
NEWLY unearthed FBI files describe Prince Charles’s mentor, Lord Mountbatten, as “a homosexual with a perversion for young boys”.
The decorated war hero was seen as a father figure to the young Charles, his great-nephew, and is even credited with introducing his father to Queen Elizabeth, The Sun reports.
Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1938 with wife Edwina and daughters Patricia and Pamela. Picture: New Archives
The Prince of Wales was mentored by Mountbatten as he grew up, and described him as “the grandfather I never had”.
Mountbatten – who also features in The Crown on Netflix – even coached his great-nephew on his love life.
As the last viceroy of India, Mountbatten oversaw the British withdrawal and eventually became the chief of defence until 1965.
Lord Louis Mountbatten wearing Admiral of the Fleet uniform. Picture: Supplied
The military man was also well-known for his sexual appetites, sparked in part by his own comment about his wife: “Edwina and I spent all our married lives getting into other people’s beds.”
More is known about Edwina’s extramarital affairs, but in the 75-year-old dossier, an aristocratic source close to them, interviewed by the FBI in the 1940s, described them as “persons of extremely low morals”.
